Cascade vs Systempunkt - What's the difference?
cascade | systempunkt |
A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
* Cowper
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
(juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
(Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
* 1993 , "e.j.barker", Disassociation'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.slack )
* 1999 , "Anonymous", CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.test )
* 2004 , "swt", ARRR!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.religion.kibology )
To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
* 2001 , Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours
To occur as a causal sequence.
(archaic, slang) To vomit.
The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization).
As nouns the difference between cascade and systempunkt
is that cascade is a waterfall or series of small waterfalls while systempunkt is the point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization).As a verb cascade
is to fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.As a proper noun Cascade
is an administrative district in Seychelles.cascade
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
- The silver brook pours the white cascade .
- The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events'' — Richard M. Restak, ''The Secret Life of the Brain , Joseph Henry Press, 2001
- Don't you hate cascades ? I hate cascades!
- Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
- Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades .
Derived terms
* cascadable * (juggling) reverse cascade, French cascadeVerb
(cascad)- No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
Anagrams
* ----systempunkt
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(en noun)References
*Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization, By John Robb, 2008, p. 95-96